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From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.\nEveryone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.\nWe will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email .\nAre you interested in working for the music industry? Would you like to help develop uniquecutting-edgedata science and AI solutions to help drive innovation and creative data-driven strategies across Universal Music?\nUniversal Music UK is looking for an AI ProductEngineerto become part of our UK central data,AIand technology team. The role offers a unique opportunity to join us at the start of a new chapter, where we are looking to grow & expand on the foundation of workwe’vealready begun.\nThe role is perfect for a candidate that is passionate about music, data,AIand technology and has a thirst foracquiring,analysingand communicating knowledge through data. In a creative organisation such as ours, reducing a complex problem into something simple is key, so any experience managing stakeholders, shapingideasand translating business needs into clear product requirements would also be a strength.\nAlongside this, you willbe responsible forbuilding and improving AI-powered products, tools and workflows that solvereal businessproblems across Universal Music UK. You will work with stakeholders and product managers to understand user needs, shaperequirementsand turn ideas into practical technical solutions. Working closely with data scientists, engineers,designersand business teams, you will help take products from discovery and prototyping through to development, launch,adoptionand ongoing iteration. Aswe’refirst and foremosta data,AIand technology team, you should be comfortable working with data, APIs, technicaltrade-offsand modern AI-enabled software development.\nAs part of the central data, AI and technology team, you’ll have a chance to work across all divisions, including AMS, frontline labels, our catalogue division UMR, and all other central teams, as well as data and technologyteams within the wider business. This includes helping shape products from theinceptionof an idea through to fully working technology that supports & supercharges the labels.\nKey Responsibilities\nThis role will feed directly into our Engineering Lead, where core responsibilities include:\nDevelop AI-powered products, tools and workflows that are tailored to the needs of our labels and central teams.\n\nCollaborate with stakeholders, productmanagersand data teams to understand requirements and turn ideas into practical technical solutions.\n\nBuild prototypes, applications and product features using modern software development tools, AItechnologiesand data-driven approaches.\n\nWork closely with developers, datascientistsand project managers to ensure thetimelydelivery of high-quality data and AI products that can adapt to the business’ changing needs.\n\nSupport product testing, troubleshooting and iteration to ensure solutions are reliable, useful, secure,performantand delivering measurable value.\n\nStayup-to-datewith the latest trends and technologies in AI, softwareengineeringand product development, applying them to improve the quality and efficiency of our solutions.\n\nAt the heart of this role is a desire to give us a competitive edge in connecting our artists with audiences across the globe. More will be explained at interview. Rest assured, this is an exciting role as part of an innovative new initiative within the organisation.\nSkills & Experience\nSkills\nStrong software engineering skills across front-end, back-end and data-driven product development.\n\nStrong experience developing modern web interfaces using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.\n\nExperience usingcomponentlibraries and design systems such as Material UI to build consistent and accessible user interfaces.\n\nExperience building back-end services, APIs and applications using Django, Django REST Framework and Python.\n\nAbility to turn product requirements into clean, scalable,secureand maintainable technical solutions.\n\nComfortable working with SQL, relational databases, analytics tools and large or complex datasets.\n\nExperience integrating internal and external APIs,servicesand data sources into applications.\n\nGood working knowledge of data,AIand machine learning concepts.\n\nExperience building or integrating AI-powered features into web applications,toolsor business workflows.\n\nFamiliarity with generative AI tools and coding assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot or Codex.\n\nAwareness of agentic engineering approaches, AI-assisted workflows and tools such as Model Context Protocol would beadvantageous.\n\nExperience working with AWS, manageddatabasesand DevOps practices, including Git, GitHub, code review, CI/CD, deploymentworkflowsand monitoring.\n\nFamiliarity with CloudWatch, Aurora, Docker, Kubernetes,Azureor Microsoft Entra ID would beadvantageous.\n\nAbility to collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, data specialists, projectmanagersand non-technical stakeholders.\n\nStrong problem-solving, testing,debuggingand troubleshooting skills.\n\nAbility to manage competing priorities with a focus on product quality, userneedsand measurable outcomes.\n\nKnowledge of music repertoire, music metadata,rightsor the wider music industry isadvantageous.\n\nExperience\nMinimum of3years’ experience in software engineering, AI, data,technologyor a related role.\n\nBackground building web applications,APIsor internal tools using modern development practices.\n\nExperience working across the full product lifecycle, from discovery and prototype through launch, adoption,maintenanceand iterative improvement.\n\nExperience working with cloud-hosted services, production deployments,monitoringand operational supportisadvantageous.\n\nEducation\nDegree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.\n\nA background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science,AIor a related technical discipline would beadvantageous.\n\nRelevant professional experience, demonstrable technicalcapabilityand a strong portfolio of delivered products will be considered in place of formal qualifications.\n\nJust So You Know…\nThe company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. 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